<b>A group of Indian farmers say they woke up shocked to find that the train they were travelling on had sped 160km (99 miles) in the "wrong direction".</b><p>About 1,500 farmers were travelling overnight to the western state of Maharashtra after taking part in a protest rally in Delhi.<p>But several hours into …

<b>Plans to almost double the number of Thameslink trains running through London have been delayed by a year, the Whitehall spending watchdog has said.</b><p>A timetable of up to 24 trains per hour at peak times was scheduled to start by the end of next year.<p>The National Audit Office (NAO) said it will be …

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts<p>When I was a trainspotter in the 50s and 60s, railway signals were mostly of the semaphore type operated by wires and men in signal boxes, and I …